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Switch from Paymo

Paymo is great for small teams. You're ready to scale.

Paymo was perfect when you were five people. Now every new hire costs you $12/month in seat fees — and you still can't pay a team member or close your books. Time to graduate.

Why firms switch from Paymo

Every one of these is something Paymo can't do — or doesn't offer at all.

Paymo charges per user ($15.90/user/month on Plus at list price)

CherryWorks Pro includes unlimited users on every plan. A 15-person firm saves $2,862/year in seat fees alone.

No general ledger or accounting module

CherryWorks Pro includes a full chart of accounts, double-entry journal entries, trial balance report, and bank reconciliation.

No project profitability or utilization reports

CherryWorks Pro includes 19 reports: project profitability, team utilization, AR aging, expense analytics, and more.

No 1099 + W-2 + Corp-to-Corp support

Manage all three worker classifications in one platform. Smart onboarding adapts to each type. Payouts, tax exports, and compliance are built in.

No payout tracking

Automatic payout creation when invoices are sent. Track ACH, Zelle, wire — and export 1099 totals at year-end.

No import wizard for data migration

Upload CSVs from any platform. Preview with dry-run. Execute with one click. Full rollback if anything looks wrong.

Built for small teams, not scaling firms

Paymo works for teams of 5. CherryWorks Pro is built for agencies managing 10, 50, or 100+ team members across projects.

Feature comparison

Where CherryWorks Pro wins — and where Paymo still has the edge.

Feature
CherryWorks Pro
Paymo

Unlimited users (no per-seat fees)

1099 + W-2 + Corp-to-Corp support

Payout tracking

Full general ledger accounting

Auto-reimbursement payouts

Client portal with overdue alerts

Import wizard (upload, preview, rollback)

Bank reconciliation

Multi-currency invoicing (33)

Time tracking

Invoicing from billable time

Expense management

Project budget tracking

Kanban task boards

Resource planning

Estimates & proposals

Enterprise audit logging

Paymo is solid for small teams. CherryWorks Pro is built for firms ready to scale operations and accounting in one platform.

* Some features require Professional or Business plans. See pricing for details.

Migration timeline

Three steps. Five minutes. Zero downtime.

Step 1

Export from Paymo

Export your clients, projects, and time entries as CSV files from Paymo's settings.

Step 2

Import & preview

Upload CSVs to CherryWorks Pro. Preview every record with dry-run. Fix any issues before committing.

Step 3

Go live

Execute the import with one click. Your team starts working immediately. Roll back anytime if needed.

What scaling actually looks like

Full general ledger

Chart of accounts, journal entries, trial balance, and bank reconciliation — built in.

Team payouts

Auto-created payouts when invoices are sent. Track ACH, Zelle, wire. Export 1099 totals.

Unlimited users

No $15.90/user/month. Add your entire team on any plan. Scale without seat-fee anxiety.

19 built-in reports

Project profitability, utilization, AR aging — the reporting Paymo doesn't offer.

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Included in Business plan

One more thing no competitor offers

Marketing Hub adds a full prospect-to-client layer on top of CherryWorks Pro — included in the Business plan, with no cross-contamination between marketing and billing records.

Contacts & Companies CRM

Track prospects and companies in their own tables, completely separate from billing clients. Tags, custom fields, activity timeline.

Campaigns & Sequences

Broadcast to a segment, or run multi-step automated outreach. Stops the moment a prospect replies or is promoted to a client.

Prospect / Client Separation

Marketing data lives in dedicated database tables — no foreign keys to your books, no cross-contamination between marketing and billing records.